Notices > Policy and Criteria for Recognising a Professional Body and Registering of a Professional Designation for the purposes of the National Qualifications Framework Act, Act 67 of 2008 (as amended, September 2020)

The following definitions are relevant to this P&C for professional bodies:

a.	"Community of expert practitioners"

means a group of knowledgable or appropriately skilled practitioners in a formalised and well-defined profession or occupation;

"NQF Act"

means the National Qualifications Framework Act (Act 67 of 2008), as amended;

c.	"Occupational qualification"

means a qualification associated with a trade, occupation or profession resulting in learning in and for the workplace;

d.	"Part-qualification"

means an assessed unit of learning that is registered, on the NQF, as part of a qualification;

e.	"Professional body"

means any statutory or non-statutory body that sets professional standards and registers i n d i v i d u a l expert practitioners in an occupational field;

f.	"Professional designation"

means a title or status conferred by a professional body in recognition of a person’s expertise and/or right to practise in an occupational field;

g.	"Progression pathway"

means a hierarchy of two or more related qualifications and/or professional designations that allow for vertical progression within a profession;

h.	"Provider"

means a legally established institution (public or private) that has been recognised, usually for a particular period of time, by a QC or its appointed agent, as having the capacity or provisional capacity to offer an NQF registered qualification or part-qualification at the required standard; and

i.	"Qualification"

means a registered national qualification.

National Qualifications Framework Act, 2008 (Act 67 of 2008)

Notices

Policy and Criteria for Recognising a Professional Body and Registering of a Professional Designation for the purposes of the National Qualifications Framework Act, Act 67 of 2008 (as amended, September 2020)

1. Definitions